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Notre Dame to host USC in first night game in 21 years
Tribune reporterFinally, some spice in the Notre Dame-USC football rivalry. But seriously, as if any Irish-Trojans confrontation required a more electrified backdrop, there was this bombshell out of South Bend on Wednesday: Notre Dame will host its first home night...Tags: Education, College Sports, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Colleges and Universities, Armed Forces
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Hits and misses -- but no injuries -- at NU spring exhibition
The term “spring game” did not apply to what took place at Northwestern’s Ryan Field on Saturday. For one, it was played in parka-and-mittens weather. And the exhibition, as NU officials ended up calling it, featured untimed play...Tags: Education, Big Ten Conference, Colleges and Universities, Firearms, Northwestern Wildcats
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Your government on war
Robert Koehler"Our primary long range interest in Geneva, however, is general and complete disarmament, designed to take place by stages, permitting parallel political developments to build the new institutions of peace which would take the place of arms. . . . "While...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Robert Koehler, John F. Kennedy, Government, Politics
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Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to pull out of Syria
ReutersBEIRUT, June 20 (Reuters) - President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of Syria, saying any further involvement in its neighbour's civil war would fuel instability in Lebanon....Tags: Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Barack Obama, Religion and Belief, Bashar Assad
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Sweden jails Rwandan for life for role in 1994 genocide
ReutersSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a man of Rwandan origin to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African county, the first such case in the Nordic state. Stanislas Mbanenande, 54, an ethnic Hutu from...Tags: Massacres, Punishment, International Law, Prisons, Hate Crimes
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Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row
ReutersDOHA (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents....Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Prisons, Rebellions, Afghanistan, Politics
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Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base
Reuters* Al Shabaab say aim is to expel "disbelievers" * Somalia struggling to emerge from two decades of conflict * Reform of security forces seen key to cementing gains By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, June 20 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebel group...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Armed Conflicts, Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Rebellions
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End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown rattles swathe of world investments
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's explicit signal it will stop pumping money into the world economy and data showing China's economy slowing down swept across financial markets on Thursday, sinking bonds, shares and commodities alike....Tags: Christopher Johnson, Personal Income, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Manufacturing and Engineering, Thailand
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WRAPUP 1-Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row
Reuters* Protocol spat snarls revived peace bid * Exchange of captives expected to be discussed By Amena Bakr DOHA, June 20 (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the...Tags: Rebellions, Prisons, Afghanistan, Government, Politics
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INTERVIEW-Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
Reuters* Zebari says pressure on Iraqi neutrality enormous * Decries lack of international consensus on Syria * Iraq denies it lets Iran fly weapons across its airspace By Samia Nakhoul and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD, June 20 (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted...Tags: Rebellions, Government, Politics, National Government, Baghdad (Iraq)
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